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Theatre Makes Politics#Theatre Power Politics (TMP)

Theatre Makes Politics#Theatre Power Politics (TMP)
an Erasmus+ Youth Project 2022-2025

Main partners
-Bundesverband Theaterpädagogik e.V., (BUT), Germany (Project Coordinator)
-La Transplanisphere (LT), France
-Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr), Greece
-Ex-Quorum - Associação de Divulgação de Eventos Culturais (EQ), Portugal
-Centre for Intercultural Dialogue Association, (CID), Rebublic of North Macedonia
-Stadt Theatre Dortmund (STD), Germany 

 

PARTNERS MEETINGS

RESEARCH WORKSHOPS

WORKING GROUPS

PILOT WORKSHOPS

Main areas of concerns: TMP proposes to originate a creative response on anti-democratic forces in European societies.
The consortium of partners considers it is extremely important that youth workers working with young Europeans are able to use creative tools to question how populists and extremists  try to manipulate them.

The project explores how some groups create opposition up to enemyship to other groups, be they refugeexpected es, muslims, “unbelievers”, LGBTQ+ a.s.o.

The expected  results: TMP  develops creative worktools, a handbook, an a network, in order to empower youth workers to be able to shift perspectives in their concrete work, and to help young people to find a deeper understanding of people who are “different”, overcoming prejudices and discover the pleasure of exchanging, playing and acting with people they would otherwise never meet.

The project’s objectives are:
- To empower and encourage youth workers to integrate methods into their work that will help them to address antidemocratic attitudes, such as racism, nationalism, intolerance, as well as religious fundamentalism in all its forms.
- To enrich the set of methods and tools available for youth work in the above fields with techniques from the field of theatre pedagogy and other performing arts.
- To create a core of youth trainers/ workers who have skills to tackle these sensitive issues in their work, and who also can act as multipliers

The project will address the 4 following issues using theatre/drama and performing arts:

  1. Far-right extremism and populism: Racism and anti-refugees' rhetoric

  2. Far-right extremism and populism: Conspiracy theories and disinformation

  3. Religious fundamentalism: Islamic fundamentalism 

  4. Christian religious dogmatism and politics

The steps:
a) 4 face-to-face Research Workshops (Paris – Montreuil France, September 2022: religious extremism, Lesvos Isl Greece, October 2022: racism, refugees, xenophobia, nationalism, Evora Portugal November 2022: Christian religious dogmatism and politicsm, Skopje, North Macedonia, January 2023: Conspiracy theories and fake news)
b) Research & Writing Groups
c) Drafting a manual
d) Presenting the manual to selected youth workers
e) Testing the methodology with Youth Groups
f) Re-writing the manual & work-tools
g) Dissemination events (local conferences)

Implementation period 1/3/2022-1/3/2025

Project ID No:  2021-2-DE04-KA220-YOU - 000049944
(Erasmus+ Cooperation partnerships in youth 2021, Round 2)

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TMP in Greece

Coordination & Management: Katerina Alexiadi (Coordinantor), Vassia Kossyva

Consultant & Implementation Group: Nikos Govas, Kostis Papaioannou, Christina Zoniou, Giouli Douvou, Antonella Hira, Vassilis Klisiaris, Giorgos Bekiaris, Marios Koukounaras-Liagis, Giorgos Moschos, Babis Baltas, Nazir Nazar, Evgenia Zagoura, Anastasia Patsiou, Antigoni Tsarbopoulou, Christina Krithari

Local Associated Partners
"SIMEIO / SIGNAL" researching & confronting the far right
"PROTA 21 / InArt21" initiative for Article 12
University of the Peloponnese Greece- Theatre Studies
Trikala Youth Theatre 
Patras Youth Thetare
"SKASIARHIO" paedagogical group

Theater Makes Politics

Uninstall the installs: deconstructing the roots of fascism

Athens, 22/03/2025, conference workshop, Katerina Alexiadi, Vasilis Klisiaris

Event date: 3/22/2025 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Export event

Uninstall the installs: deconstructing the roots of fascism

Katerina Alexiadi, educator, drama teacher, Greece
Vasilis Klisiaris, educator, drama teacher, Greece


WORKSHOP

Athens International Conference "Theatre/Drama & Inclusive Education"

22 March 2025

Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)

Language: Greek
Limited number of participants


 

Short description

The purpose of this particular workshop is to explore the concepts of racism, populism, far-right extremism, and anti-refugee rhetoric, and to ask the participants how they perceive these concepts as well as to explore the perspectives of others. In this effort, the participants will:

  • Recognize their perspectives on these topics

  • Explore the perceptions of others

  • Recognize and relate to the concepts

  • Look into contemporary reality documents that will be shared

  • Create artistic compositions


 

This workshop is a short version of one of the four (4) workshops developed under the "Theater Makes Politics" (TMP) program (Erasmus+ 2022-2025). TMP explores how theater/drama can influence the political thinking and attitudes of contemporary European societies.

Katerina Alexiadi is a secondary school Language teacher in the Experimental Musical High School of Pallini. From September 2014 to September 2019, she had been a Cultural Project Coordinator in the Directorate of Secondary Education of Eastern Attica. She holds an MA in Theatre Studies–Musicology of the University of Athens/Theatre Studies Department and an MA in Cultural Management in Panteion University in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture.  She has followed the two years course of Music and Movement Education Orff-Schulwerk offered by Moraitis School. She has studied classical singing, harmony of music and classical and contemporary dance. She has participated in performances inspired by Euripides' tragedies Troades, Bacchus, Medea, with the Ops Theater group of Katerina Papaiakovou and in dance performances. She has worked with children's theater groups and organized performances. She has participated as a member of the Organizing Committee and as a speaker at international conferences. She is a member of the Educational Group "To Skasiarcheo" and participated as a trainer in the Pilot Program for the implementation of Freinet Pedagogy. She is a member of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama Education Network (TENet-Gr) and a member of the editing committee of the “Education & Theatre” Journal.  Since 2018 she is coordinator and trainer of the program "It could be me, it could be you?" of Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)

Vasilis Klisiaris is an educator and drama teacher. His education includes a degree in Greek Philology from the University of Peloponnese and ongoing master’s studies in Drama and Performing Arts in Education and Lifelong Learning at the same institution. Ηe has been trained in intercultural education and teaching of Greek as a second or foreign language at the University of the Aegean. Vasilis has furthered his skills with a program on team facilitating and empowerment at Learn Inn, affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His expertise extends to designing and leading theater education programs and workshops for diverse groups, including children, teenagers, and adults. He has designed and implemented educational programmes for groups of unaccompanied refugee minors, as well as literacy programmes for local and foreign prisoners. As a member of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr), Vasilis applies his knowledge in experiential techniques, social theater, forum theater, and educational drama to various programs. In February 2024 was elected president of the board of directors of Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr).